"The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth â€” Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu."

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Source : "The Sources of the Morality of the Gospels". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1914.

Joseph McCabe

#School Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Long Quotes

“I would love to see some comedies about loser women.”
“We, as a band, are going to try to do a remix pack for some of our latest songs and do as much as we can. Every single that we release gets that. That's the thing that we enjoy. You meet a lot of talented producers and DJs, you revisit friends and ask them if they want to do a remix, that's one of the beauties in it right now: hearing different versions of our versions and just being able to put those out, as well. ”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“I'm not President Bush”
“in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?”
“Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.”
“Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years later. To have him write political science fiction is both appropriate and intriguing.”
“Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.”
“What doesnâ€™t kill me can only make me stronger”

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